How to: add a twitter dialog box anywhere on your blog

Update: Twitter Anywhere is now deprecated. You won’t be able to use the method described below to insert a Twitter dialog box in your posts. Please check Twitter’s announcement post for alternatives.

Twitter has become a very useful tool for all bloggers, and allows us to share and promote useful articles to fellow bloggers. Naturally, we have seen more and more twitter functions integrated into our blogs; the latest Official twitter button has even made it easier to integrate twitter buttons on your blog.

But what if you do not want of a standard twitter button, but rather of a new and easy way for your readers to contact you via twitter? Luckily, Twitter @anywhere is here for you, and in that tutorial, we will see how to easily integrate at twitter box to any part of your blog, thanks to this service and the WordPress shortcodes! This can be done in a few easy step, and the result will look as below:

[twitterbox]

You will be able to customize the width and height of the form, as well as the message appearing by default in the box. Of course, as we will integrate this box with a shortcode, you will be able to integrate this tweetbox everywhere on your WordPress blog.

Create the shortcode

And you’re done ! You can now use the shortcode [ twitterbox ] everywhere in your post content, in your theme widgets, and thus display a twitter box for your readers to contact you very easily via Twitter !